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[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

It worked in Japan and Germany. Depends a lot on the context. Still too risky to consider it a good default strategy.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago

Iraq is definitely better off than they were under Saddam, if you want a more recent example.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 points 10 months ago

All it cost was untold suffering and a million dead Iraqis to overthrow the dictator America installed in the first place.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

Point of Clarification. Are you calling Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer a dictator, or referring to an earlier point in time?

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

a million dead Iraqis

Source?

[-] shplane@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I googled it, results vary from 250k to 500k, so not quite a million but still, that's a lot of deaths. Either way, the US government's real reason for that war was not to save the country from dictatorship ...

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